Platform Overview GUI

About platform overview

To access the Overview window, click the menu icon and choose Platform > Overview. The Overview window supports these features:

  • Displays brief summaries and direct links to the Catalyst Center platform GUI features, including:

    • Bundles: Provides access to bundles that you can use to integrate your own applications to Catalyst Center with or to enhance the performance of Catalyst Center itself. Bundles are defined as groupings of APIs, events, integration flows, data services, or applications. Additionally, provides access to a GUI (Configurations) where you can configure general or event global settings or settings for multiple bundles.

    • Developer Toolkit: Provides tools (APIs and integration flows) for accessing Catalyst Center and integrating Catalyst Center with other applications.

    • Runtime Dashboard: Provides a dashboard where metrics are collected and you can view API, integration flow, and event summaries.

    • Configurations: Provides dashboards where you can configure the category, severity, and type of events for your network, as well as add/edit instances to bundles.

  • Accesses the Notifications slide-in pane that presents any current Catalyst Center platform notifications, including bundle updates. Click View Details to view detailed data about the bundle under the Bundles tab. Click Dismiss to dismiss the bundle notification.

Review the platform GUI

Do this procedure to review the Catalyst Center platform features and functions that are available to you. You can review these features and functions using the Overview window in the Catalyst Center GUI.

Figure 1. Catalyst Center platform Overview window

Procedure


Step 1

From the main menu, choose Platform > Overview.

Step 2

Review the options available to you in this window.

Step 3

Click the links to directly access the individual Catalyst Center platform feature.

Step 4

Review bundle update information using the Notifications slide-in pane.

Note

 

The bundle update information concerns the bundle status (enabled, disabled, successfully configured, or ready to be configured).